Would you/have you dyed your horse? any pictures? how did you do it?

Question

when i was little for fancy dress i pretended to be a hairdresser with crazy hair. i dyed my pony's socks blue, and her white mane and tail green yellow and purple with food dye, and dont worry, my aunt made sure it was okay to useon her. it looked awesome!

would you/ have you ever dyed your horse? got any pictures? how did you go about it?

Answer 1

my white arab as a zebra, added black vet wrap on her tail, and dressed in a jungle outfit, i was jane from tarzan. lol. it was fun and mah pony didnt mind it.

we used a spray on hair color that washed out really easy... infact when she started moving and sweating in the heat of the summer day, the color started running.  i have pics, but none online. maybe when i got thru all mah old pics.

edit: come on, why is everyone so uptight over this topic? i mean it's usually for a "fun" class and there is nothing unsafe about doing it if you use the right products. . . they have horse glitter for their coats and hooves that dover sells,if it wasnt safe i really think they wouldnt have come out with color glitter for horse coats.

Answer 2

I have a black colt thats mane was bleached out and kinda a red color so i used black hair coloring to make it black again

Answer 3

no i wouldn't change a thing on my horse lol

Answer 4

I haven't but there is a process used in the shows to dye a horse (supposedly to enhance its natural color but actually you can have it any color you want.).

It is called shower capping.  Mix hair dye with baby shampoo.  I think it was three batches of hair dye to a bottle of baby shampoo for a full sized horse.  Then put on rubber gloves and give your horse a thorough shampooing.

To me this is cheating and we showed our stud without any enhancements.  However he was once beat by a horse that was down right ugly (at least for a model fox trotter) in conformation (long back, too short of a neck, disproportioned) just because he had a lot of flashy color which I later learned was from being shower capped and then bleached on dapples.  Of course it didn't help either that the trainer of the other horse knew the judge.

Answer 5

I helped dye a horse for a practical joke.

We spray painted this guy's horse pink and purple.

Go onto youtube.com and in the top box, put in Maverina the Pink Horse. The video creator was sparkypony. The horse was a paint and we only painted his white marks.

Answer 6

I never have, but some girls I take lessons with turned the little welsh mix at the barn into kind of an art project, they spraypainted his tail with green, blue, and pink stripes. Strange by most people's standards, but this is the pony who begs for Bojangles chicken. I don't have any pics of him painted, but there are some of him at the drive-thru.

http://www.castlefarm-nc.com/gallery2/ma...

Those are at Dunkin Donuts, there weren't any good ones from Bojangles.

Answer 7

A client had a sun-faded black TWH that he wanted BLACK for show.  It took 5 bottles of M. C. and 5 bottles of 20 volume peroxide.  It also took a couple of hours.

We were very careful about his face and eyes.   I would NEVER do it again.   This was 40 something years ago.